Flame singeing machine



My 21, 1929. E. TURNER FLAME VSINGEING MAQCHTNE' Filed. Nov 4, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet- May 21, 1929. I E, TURNER 1,714,410.

FLAME SINGEIING MACHINE Filed Nov, 4, 1925 2 Sheets$heet 2 N VE/V TOR Patented May 21, 1929.

PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST TURNER, or MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

FLAME SINGEING, MACHINE. 7

Application filed November 4, 1925, Serial No. 66,823, and in Great Britain November 8, 1924." i

ric will be saturated with air when the flame strikes it so that the loosefibres which are held in a flufl'ed condition by said air will be instantly consumed, thus enabling the fabric to be run through the machine at a very high rate of speed, with consequent greatly increased capacity per machine. i

In' the present. application I show and de scribe only several embodiments of'my invention, including my present preferred embodiment thereof, simply by way of illus tration of the practice of my invention, as by law required. However, I realize that my invention is capable of embodiment in a number of other forms and that the various details thereof may be modified in many Ways, all without departing from my said invention. Therefore, the drawings and description herein are to be considered as merely illustrative and not as exclusive.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 representsa side elevation of a singeing machine embodying the preferred form of my invention; and

Figure 2, a similar view of a tion.

Referring now in detail to the drawings, a series of burners a are mounted, preferably one above the other and alternately on different sides of a vertical frame '5 as illustrated in Figure 1. Brushes are provided at the top of the frame to raise the nap, said brushes being located in a casing froin which the products of combustion are excluded. The cloth is, indicated by a chain line, is led over the guide roll l downwardly between the brushes 7' and the burners a, the flame orifices of which are arranged to project the flame horizontally onto the said cloth, that is to say the burner opening of alternate burners point in opposite directions in order to treat both sides of the modificafabric.

Above each burner a and in the path of the waste heat rising from each flame is a baflle plate m, resting upon or secured to which is a slotted or perforated air pipe n adapted to project air onto the cloth on the .the frame being provided to'carry o jthe As shown, the exhaust fumes and dbris. fan 0 communicates with a conduit p leading from two slotted or perforated pipes p, p arranged on opposite sides of the last burner inorder to scavenge any charred matter adhering to the fabric. a

From the scavenging pipes pthe fabric is led to any desired point or apparatus, a steaming box Q being shown, through which the fabric is led to the mangling rollers r and plaiter s. It will thus be seen that after the nap has been brushed it is not passed over rollers before being subjected to the flame.

In some cases the fabric is led from the flame singers a to a roller or plate singer t as illustrated in Figure 2, and in this case an overhead air heater may be provided through which a part or the whole of the flue gases may be led, thus ensuring an ample supply of hot air to thoroughly dry the cloth prior to same passing to the first burner. In the arrangement shown in Figure 2 the burners are shown as all projecting flame in the same direction guide rolls u being provided to guide the fabric so as to present the opposite sidesthereof to different burners when it is desired to treat both sides. Two arrangements of traversing the fabric being shown in chain and dotted lines respectively upon which are indicated arrow heads from which the path of the fabric will be clearly understood.

Each of the burners a is supplied with a combustible mixture under pressure through main gas supply pipes b and individual branch supply pipes 0, suitable control valves, not shown, being provided, and said burners a may be of any construction which will'functionto project horizontally a sheet jet of flame of substantially uniform length for the full width of the web of fabric against the latter. A construction of burner suitable for the purpose and functioning as above vchine, a plurality of burners carried by said frame and adapted respectively to throw a horizontal sheet jet of flame onto said fabric, and means for projecting a sheet jet of air under pressure onto said fabric in frontof each of said jets of flame.

2. A singeing machine, comprising a frame, means on said frame for conducting a Web of fabric substantially vertically of said machine, a plurality of burners carried by said frame anddisposed LIternately on opposite sides of said fabric, each of said burners being adapted to throw a horizontal sheet jet of flame onto said fabric, and means for projecting a jetof heated air under pressure onto said fabric in front of each of said jets of flame.

i 3. A singeing machine, comprising a frame, means on said frame for conducting a Web of fabric substantially vertically of said machine, a plurality of burners carried by said frame and disposed alternately on opposite sides of said fabric, each of said burners being adapted to throw a horizontal jet of flame onto said fabric, a baflle-plate located directly above each of said flame jets, and an air-pipe resting on each of said bafl ie-plates and emptying onto said fabric.

a. A singemg machine, comprising a frame, means for conducting a Web of fabric through said frame, a burner carried by said frame adapted to project a jet of flame onto said fabric, and means for projecting a jet of air under pressure onto said fabric in front of,

and in proximity to, the point of contact between said flame and fabric.

5. A singeing machine, comprising a frame, means on said frame for conducting the material to be'singed substantially; vertically of said machine, and means for projecting a Wide jet of air under pressure onto said inaterial, in combination with means for proecting awide, thin, sheet of flame of uniform length onto said material, said et of air contacting With said material in front of,and in proximity to, said sheet of flame.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification at Manchester this 22nd day of October, 1925.

ERNEST TURNER. 

